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Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles

Influences

A course by Anabel Torres , Fashion Designer and Textile Artist

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Audio: Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese

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About the video: Influences

Overview

“Now I will share with you some books where I get inspiration and references for my work. These are books on color, textile design, symbols and archetypes. ”

In this video lesson Anabel Torres addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles. Learn to extract color directly from nature and make organic powder dyes to paint textiles and much more.

Partial transcription of the video

“influences In more than ten years that I have been working with natural colors, I have found books like these who have helped me find inspiration and interesting information about colors. This book is by Kassia St Clair and it's called "The Secret Lives of Color." Tell short stories about colors and how they have changed the world throughout history. Each section is dedicated to a color. Here, for example, he talks about different yellows, some are historic colors, shades or metals. The author began writing this type of stories for a section in a newspaper, so here is some very interesting ...”

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Course summary for: Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (123)
4859 students
4 units
13 lessons (1h 52m)
5 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fine Arts, Painting, Textile Design, Textile Dyeing, Textile Printing

Anabel Torres

A course by Anabel Torres

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Fashion Designer and Textile Artist

Anabel Torres has been a specialist in natural textile dyes for the past seven years and, through her brand Antesis, she designs and sells sustainable items decorated with stunning organic colors, as well as offering textile art workshops across Mexico City.

Her focus is on studying and experimenting with colors that can be easily obtained from the world around us⁠—⁠such as indigo, annatto, and cochineal—and she draws inspiration from the textures found in nature.